Daily News - Friday 25 October 2013

For 11 years I worked as a chaplain in a maximum security prison at Melbourne's Metropolitan Remand Centre. In that setting I would at times meet inmates who were accused of serious crimes that had shocked the community.

Clive Palmer and the micro-parties that will hold the balance of power in the Senate from July are threatening to play havoc with Prime Minister Tony Abbott's legislative agenda if the government gives in to growing calls to reform the voting system.

THE management of Australia's premier indigenous tourism resort - a showcase for Aboriginal job creation - has been thrown into turmoil by a boardroom purge that sparked the managing director's resignation and a bitter row over the company's profitability.

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